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lactic," or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it. I. Watts.

humility is the way to thrive in the riches of the understanding, as well as in gold. I. Watts.

ome extraneous matter. A little black paint will tincture and spoil twenty gay colors. I. Watts.

or upper part, of a plant. The buds . . . are called heads, or tops, as cabbageheads. I. Watts.

ruelty." Shak. [He] was so topful of himself, that he let it spill on all the company. I. Watts.

red with white or buff ocelli, and the head is ornamented with two bright-colored, fleshy wattles. The crimson tragopan, or horned pheasant (C. satyra), of India is one of the best-known species.

onsecution or succession of connected things; a series. "A train of happy sentiments." I. Watts. The train of ills our love would draw behind it. Addison. Rivers now Stream and perpetual draw their humid train. Milton. Other truths require a train of ideas placed in order. Locke.

ay be maintained at a very high temperature and require an expenditure of only about 1.25 watts per candle power.

r, or meditate upon; -- with about, over, etc. " Turn these ideas about in your mind." I. Watts. -- To turn off. (a) To dismiss contemptuously; as, to turn off a sycophant or a parasite. (b) To give over; to reduce. (c) To divert; to deflect; as, to turn off the thoughts from serious subjects; to turn off a joke. (d)…

To strip of clothes or covering; to make naked. I. Watts. [We] do groan being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon. 2 Cor. v. 4.

e; not conforming. Moral evil is an action unconformable to it [the rule of our duty]. I. Watts.

To deprive of glory. [R.] I. Watts.

The least whole number; one. Units are the integral parts of any large number. I. Watts.

Want of remembrance; forgetfulness. I. Watts.

ourse toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward. I. Watts. Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. Hooker.

Having the quality of burning. [R.] I. Watts.

rts into verse; one who expresses in verse the ideas of another written in prose; as, Dr. Watts was a versifier of the Psalms.

t denies any proposition, the opponent must directly vindicate . . . that proposition. I. Watts. Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man. Pope.

of a volt and an ampere. For direct current it is a measure of power and is the same as a watt; for alternating current it is a measure of apparent power.

A wattmeter.